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20 Yuan Beijing Winter Olympics
| Issuer | People's Bank of China |
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| Year | 2022 |
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| Size | 145 × 70 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | ZHONGGUO RENMIN YINHANG ᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ ᠠᠷᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ ᠪᠠᠩᠬᠢ ༄༅། །ཀྲུང་གོམི་མི་རྣམས་དངུལ་ཁང་། སྒོར་ཉི་ཤུ། جۇڭگو خەلق بانكىسىيىگىرمە يۈەن Cunghgoz Yinzminz Yinzhangz ngeih cib maenz 第24届冬季奥林匹克运动会纪念 2022年 (Translation: People's Bank of China — in Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Zhuang scripts — Twenty Yuan, Commemoration of the 24th Winter Olympic Games, Year 2022) |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Color-shifting ink, Security thread |
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China has issued commemorative banknotes for major events before — the 2008 Beijing Olympics produced a 10 Yuan note — but the 2022 Winter Olympics issue marks the first time the People's Bank released a commemorative note for a winter games and only the second time a Chinese Olympic note carried a different denomination than its predecessor. The choice of cotton substrate rather than the polymer used in some recent Chinese commemoratives reflects a deliberate decision to match the tactile feel of standard circulation issues, keeping it accessible to the general public rather than positioned purely as a collector object.
Color-shifting ink on the denomination numeral shifts from gold to green — the same optical variable ink technology applied to higher-denomination standard series notes, which was unusual to deploy on a 20 Yuan face value.